4 April 2016

Second World War

I really
love reading, learning and studying, and for the last two months I
have been reading the Winter of the World by Ken Follett, which is
the second book of the century trilogy after Fall
of Giants. This book is a novel about the Second World War
where we can learn about that war in a easy and entertainment way.
It's funny, and sad at the same time, how some people think this war
was too many years ago while it was nearly 70 years ago when our
grandparents lived then.

The second
world war began 20 years after the first world war, when Germany
invaded Poland in 1939, subsequently France and the United Kingdom
declared the war to the Nazi Germany. There was two military
alliances, the Allies and the Axis, led by Roosevelt, Stalin,
Churchill, Hitler, Mussolini, etc. It's amazing how some leaders
could decide a war where more than 60 millions people died.

It was 6
years of war where was many battles around the world. For instance
the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 when Japanese attacked
against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii with
fighter planes, bombers and torpedo planes launched from aircraft
carriers. This was the entry of the United States to the Second World
War. Another battle was the battle of Stalingrad in 1942 when
Nazi Germany and its allies fought against the Soviet Union. It is
said that this battle was the single largest and bloodiest battles in
the history of warfare with nearly 2.2 millions people died. And I
have to mention the invasion of Normandy as well where Western
Allies assaulted Normandy in 1944 which was of Nazi Germany. It was
the largest amphibious invasion which allowed to get the Western
Europe by Western Allies.

At the
end, in 1945, Adolf Hitler killed himself and Japan surrendered to
the Western Allies. As a result of this awful war, our ancestors had
a terrible life living with fear, misery and penury. Today, we know
about millions of people like Jews, homosexuals, disabled, gypsies,
priests, etc that they were killed in concentration camps. For
instance the Auschwitz camp where more than 6 millions people died.
We know about sexual violence where women got pregnant by soldiers.
We know about scientific experiments with humans by Nazi to try to
improve the Nazi racial ideology. We know about bombing against
civilians and not only to soldiers. As you can see, this is a shame
but this is a war.

Today, and
after the second world war, we have the United Nations taking care of
us where 193 countries promote international cooperation to maintain
international peace and security, promoting human rights, fostering
social and economic development, protecting the environment, and
providing humanitarian aid in cases of famine, natural disaster, and
armed conflict.

I'm
wondering about what is going to happen with deportations, famine,
peace and security in the Syrian war. When is the war going to
finish? Will there be a Marshall Plan to rebuild Syria like
there was in the Second World War? We'll see in the next years.

Regards my
friend and remember, drop a line with the first thing you're
thinking.